Buruli ulcer control in a highly endemic district in Ghana: role of community-based surveillance volunteers.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

• Publication date

  2014-10-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0405PMID 25331802PMCID PMC4347364
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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